Roman Catholics: The Right to Worship According to One's Conscience

The Vatican Council last week moved
closer to the beginning of a vast change in both the spirit and
structure of the Roman Catholic Church. In a series of decisive votes,
the 2,500 assembled prelates approved the principle of episcopal
collegialitythereby affirming that as a body they govern and teach
the entire church in union with the Pope. They thus restored to
Catholicism a sense of fraternal authority that had been lost during
the development of an all-powerful papacy and foreshadowed a gradual
diminishment of the Roman Curia's power.